A Russian Doll & Other Stories by Adolfo Bioy Casares

This choice of conventional and experimental tales through Argentinian novelist Bioy Casares ( The Adventures of a Photographer in l. a. Plata ) deals subtle, seamless prose, in addition to magical realism and biting political satire. - Publishers Weekly

A Russian Doll and different tales is the 9th choice of brief fiction by means of certainly one of this century's most effective Argentinian writers who, together with his fellow countrymen Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, helped switch the world's belief of Latin American literature. Bioy Casares's narratives are based and urbane, his type special and streamlined, as he paces his characters via seriocomic traps of fate––ensnared by way of love, impelled by way of lust, ambition, or simple greed, even metamorphosed by means of prescription drugs. those will not be tales in a mental mode yet just like the photo of the Russian doll of the name piece are rigorously wrought congeries of intractable selves inside of selves.

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